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Football
By Tunji
Faleye with additional report from Bloomberg
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is strategising to buy Arsenal
Football Club.
In his interview with Bloomberg Television in New York on
Wednesday, Dangote said that he would plan for four years to buy Arsenal at the
right price.
“May be three to four years. The issue is that we have more
challenging headwinds. I need to get those out the way first and start having
tailwinds. Then I’ll focus on this,” he said.
Aliko Dangote is a cement and commodities tycoon, who’s is valued
at $10.9 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Dangote originally attempted to buy Arsenal back in 2010, however
that bid never came to fruition.
In May 2015, Bloomberg spoke with Dangote about the Gunners, and
he said the following:
I still hope, one day at the right price, that I’ll buy the team.
I might buy it, not at a ridiculous price but a price that the owners won’t
want to resist. I know my strategy.
American billionaire Stan Kroenke is currently the controlling
shareholder at Arsenal with a 67% stake in the club.
Red & White Sec Ltd., controlled by Uzbek billionaire Alisher
Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri, are the second biggest shareholders with 30% of the
Gunners.
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